Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit…

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or…

— Juan Gabriel

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot…

— Stephen King

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

— Kevan Duke

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

— Joseph O'Neill

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic

“You have to write about yourself before you can write about anything else.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish…

— Robert B. Parker

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you…

— Lyndon B. Johnson